Graduate Methods Workshop: Histories and Geographies of Racial Capitalism

Description

Please join the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism for a graduate methods workshop on historical and geographical approaches to studying racial capitalism, led by Peter Hudson, associate professor of geography at the University of British Columbia. The conversation will be wide-ranging, and students are encouraged to bring questions pertaining to their own related research topics.

Hudson deploys the methodologies and literatures of Black studies, political economy, and history. His research examines the long histories of Black dispossession under capitalism, and of Black resistance to capitalist dispossession. He is the author of Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean, published by University of Chicago Press in 2017.

The workshop is open to graduate and advanced undergraduate students. Lunch will be provided. Attendees are encouraged to read Hudson's article in Small Axe, "History, Method, and Myth: Walter Rodney and the Geographies of Black Radicalism."

While registering, you can ask questions about the first International Political Sociology (IPS) Workshop at Johns Hopkins, held Sept. 26 and 27. The IPS Workshop will focus on empire and imperialism and ask: How can IPS as a field help us produce critical scholarship on the theme of empire and imperialism in global politics?